Air NZ Dreamliner to show at Farnborough.

[omitchell]

https://nz.totaltravel.yahoo.com/news-o ... t-on-show/

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (omitchell @ Jul 8 2014,5:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

https://nz.totaltravel.yahoo.com/news-o ... t-on-show/

Thats great , good for ANZ and Boeing . Do you remember when they had the farnborough on tv every year ?

[omitchell]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jul 8 2014,11:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thats great , good for ANZ and Boeing . Do you remember when they had the farnborough on tv every year ?

I do. Used to get a lot more when I grew up in Scotland too

[ardypilot]

The way I read the news reports, it's Air NZ's fifth 787 that is to be on display at Farnborough? Does that mean 5 Dreamliners are to be delivered to the airline within a week?? Surely not!

Edit: Found this

QUOTE

While Boeing 787-9 launch customer Air New Zealand will receive three of the new model this year, there
will be a significant gap before its next wave of -9 deliveries.
The airline is set to receive its first stretched version of the 787 in July. The next is expected a
few months later, and the carrier will have three by the end of 2014.
Other carriers are also due to receive 787-9s during this period, with All Nippon Airways likely to
be the next to take its first delivery after Air New Zealand.
Following its initial three deliveries, Air New Zealand is slated to receive its fourth and fifth -9s
in 2015, company executives tell Aviation Week. These are expected to arrive in September and October
of that year, in time for the airline's summer holiday peak season. The carrier has a total of 10 on
order, with eight options.
Boeing is currently using three 787-9s in its flight-test and certification program. One of these aircraft--ZB002--was
brought to New Zealand last week, which was the longest flight conducted in the test program to date.
It then went to Alice Springs in Australia for hot weather testing.
ZB002 will eventually be refurbished and sent to Air New Zealand as its fifth delivery. The airline
will receive two of the three test-program aircraft.[/quote]

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[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jul 9 2014,12:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thats great , good for ANZ and Boeing . Do you remember when they had the farnborough on tv every year ?

Even racing home on the sweat wheel .. Marty sounds like another 'Burger Mission' at the airport .... mind you maybe polar gear rather the tee shirt approach

[HamiltonWest]

This is how you test drive a Boeing 787-9
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/1026739...-a-Boeing-787-9

[Ian Warren]

Great little video, wonder how Tex Johnston would have handled it, the power the aircraft have today by compare of 60 years back.

[omitchell]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 15 2014,9:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great little video, wonder how Tex Johnston would have handled it, the power the aircraft have today by compare of 60 years back.

or Chuck Yeager...

[Ian Warren]

Not sure the Boeing company would have liked to have Chuck on the payroll at that time, try and push the aircraft into dive just to see when the wings would fall off ... come to think it was a Boeing so that would be a hard task.

[deeknow]

QUOTE (HamiltonWest @ Jul 15 2014,9:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This is how you test drive a Boeing 787-9
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/1026739...-a-Boeing-787-9

No WAY !!! .. that's gotta be an RC model Amaze-balls

[Splitpin]

Amazing .... it really is a beautiful aircraft . Great post , cheers.

[scaber]

V e r y nice. She looks so graceful to me. I think I'm in love!

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (scaber @ Jul 15 2014,8:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

V e r y nice. She looks so graceful to me. I think I'm in love!

Careful Greg ... you may end up in the "fetich " box like me